Should I give a static IP address in this ocassion ?

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I purchase a Netcomm ADSL Modem (NB6Plus4W) that is a ADSL Modem Router with
4 x Ethernet outlet.

I find that it assigns 192.168.1.1 to the router and 192.168.1.2 to the
computer connected to the 1st port, 192.168.1.3 to the computer connected to
the 2nd port.

I have set up a shared printer on the first computer. However, I can print
from the second computer occasionally. It happens when I have installed
VMWare Workstation on the 1st computer.

In this way, I think that I can fix the problem by assigning a static IP
address to the first computer so that the second one can print to it.

Is there any potential problem for assigning a static IP address for the
first computer ? Is there any other solution for the printing issue from
the second computer ?

Your advice is sought.

Thanks
 
Patrick said:
I purchase a Netcomm ADSL Modem (NB6Plus4W) that is a ADSL Modem Router
with 4 x Ethernet outlet.

I find that it assigns 192.168.1.1 to the router and 192.168.1.2 to the
computer connected to the 1st port, 192.168.1.3 to the computer connected
to the 2nd port.

I have set up a shared printer on the first computer. However, I can
print from the second computer occasionally. It happens when I have
installed VMWare Workstation on the 1st computer.

In this way, I think that I can fix the problem by assigning a static IP
address to the first computer so that the second one can print to it.

Is there any potential problem for assigning a static IP address for the
first computer ? Is there any other solution for the printing issue from
the second computer ?

Your advice is sought.

Thanks
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It is a little unclear from your post what your actual problem is.
Regardless of this, you can always assign static IP addresses, as long as
you make sure that they are in the same subnet and that there are no
duplicates.
 
I wonder whether the second computer cannot print from the first computer's
shared printer BECAUSE VMWare Workstation has added a number of virtual NICs
to it.

I guess it may makes the 2nd computer confusing.

Thanks
 
Pegasus said:
It is a little unclear from your post what your actual problem is.
Regardless of this, you can always assign static IP addresses, as long as
you make sure that they are in the same subnet and that there are no
duplicates.
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I tried setting one of my PC's to .1 and it works but forgot to static
others and another pc turned on one day first and got the .1 making a
conflict. I just changed the router to static mine to .20 that gave
me room so the others never got .20 assigned to them. One of those
little oversights in life!
 
Patrick said:
I purchase a Netcomm ADSL Modem (NB6Plus4W) that is a ADSL Modem
Router with 4 x Ethernet outlet.

I find that it assigns 192.168.1.1 to the router and
192.168.1.2 to the computer connected to the 1st port,
192.168.1.3 to the computer connected to the 2nd port.
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Patrick,

Are you sure it is assigning by port and not by DHCP?

Regards,

Len Agoado
(e-mail address removed)
 
Patrick said:
I purchase a Netcomm ADSL Modem (NB6Plus4W) that is a ADSL Modem Router with
4 x Ethernet outlet.

I find that it assigns 192.168.1.1 to the router and 192.168.1.2 to the
computer connected to the 1st port, 192.168.1.3 to the computer connected to
the 2nd port.

I have set up a shared printer on the first computer. However, I can print
from the second computer occasionally. It happens when I have installed
VMWare Workstation on the 1st computer.

In this way, I think that I can fix the problem by assigning a static IP
address to the first computer so that the second one can print to it.

Is there any potential problem for assigning a static IP address for the
first computer ? Is there any other solution for the printing issue from
the second computer ?

Your advice is sought.

Thanks
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I don't quite understand your question, but if you want to set static IP
addresses for any of the computers connected to your router, you should
first use the router's configuration utility to change the range of IP
addresses allocated by the DHCP server.

As you have discovered, by default, the router's DHCP server begins
allocating addresses at 192.168.1.2. If you change that to begin, for
example, at 192.168.1.100, you can then set your computer(s) to have
static addresses in the range 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.99 without
worrying that they will conflict with an IP address assigned by the router.

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Lem said:
I don't quite understand your question, but if you want to set static IP
addresses for any of the computers connected to your router, you should
first use the router's configuration utility to change the range of IP
addresses allocated by the DHCP server.

As you have discovered, by default, the router's DHCP server begins
allocating addresses at 192.168.1.2. If you change that to begin, for
example, at 192.168.1.100, you can then set your computer(s) to have
static addresses in the range 192.168.1.2 through 192.168.1.99 without
worrying that they will conflict with an IP address assigned by the
router.
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Wouldn't it be simpler to disable the router's DHCP server and assign all
addresses manually?
 
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